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Yeah, some incremental improvements on existing technology for sure. Definitely worth that credit.
by renewiltord 3y ago
Yeah, some incremental improvements on existing technology for sure. Definitely worth that credit.
- lxgr 3y agoIt was an absolute marvel of technology for its time, in my view. I think they really were the first to do in-space inter-satellite routing. If you call one Iridium phone from another, the call will never touch any earth-side infrastructure (after call setup). And they've been the only ones doing that until Starlink recently launched inter-satellite links. All of that in 1998, when everybody else was still doing "bent-pipe" style satellite communications, and putting things into space was still prohibitively expensive!